Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Resident at Southbank Centre
Wednesday 4 February 2009, 7.30pm
Gustav Mahler Kindertotenlieder
INTERVAL
Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony No.9
(Choral) arr. Mahler
Neeme Jarviconductor
Matthias Goernebaritone
Lisa
Milne soprano
Karen Cargillmezzo-soprano
Peter Autytenor
Peter Rosebass
London Philharmonic Choir
Beethoven, with an entirely organic set of eight symphonies behind him, lifted his symphonic catalogue onto a new plane of expression by including, in his Ninth Symphony, vocal soloists and a chorus - uniting them in the unequivocal proclamation of uplifting humanist stanzas. The sentiments seem so final and resonant. But for Mahler, they were distorted by Beethoven's own deafness and restricted by the concert halls and instruments of his day.
In his re-orchestration, Mahler unleashes
what he believed Beethoven meant; what the Ninth Symphony should have been, and the new dimensions it could inhabit almost
a hundred years later. This is the London premiere of Mahler’s arrangement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm: Mahler scholar Jeremy Barham discusses Mahler’s arrangement of Beethoven’s
Symphony 9. Admission free.
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